Here's My Watch...

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:44 pm

Okay gang, here is something everyone can get in to, Nikola started this so it is now offically "Show Us Your Watch Week, so show us your piece

, your time piece gentlemen, you can put those things back in their holsters now, besides some of you may not have permits.

Got mine at Wally World or Wal Mart, for those of you who may not know what Wally World is.

Bill D · Post by **Bill D** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:27 pm

Well, Ok, here's mine. It is filthy dirty! I'll have to get it cleaned! Gee... I wonder how long my exposure was? LOL

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:42 am

Hey thats a nice watch there Bill

. Like the way you captured the trailing movements of the hands.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:05 am

Great looking watch shots fellas. Ken, that is a very sharp yellow color. I always wonder why they make them water resistent to 6oo feet (for Davy Jones I guess)

Carl_Constantine · Post by **Carl_Constantine** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:25 am

I feel left out. All I have is a digital watch, nothing as nice as any of these.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:06 pm

Doug said:

I always wonder why they make them water resistent to 6oo feet (for Davy Jones I guess)

You got a point there Doug, I don't expect to be diving down to do macros on the Titanic anytime soon myself.

...and Carl said:

I feel left out. All I have is a digital watch, nothing as nice as any of these.

Awe come on Carl, lets see the watch

Hey as long as it tells time it qualifies. I am waiting and I am really not surpised that some smarty has not thrown a sundial up on the forums yet but it's coming I know and it has to be at least a close-up now.

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:28 pm

Very nice guys!

Ken, you can dive it down alone just to make a test.

Bill D · Post by **Bill D** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:07 pm

Here's my much loved Seiko in all of it's scratched and dusty glory! I wore this watch for 14 years before I got my Tag Heuer. I must get a new battery for it this weekend! It still runs just fine.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:49 pm

Seikos are excellent watches. I had a Seiko divers watch, bought it onboard the USS Kennedy back in 85, it was self winding and I paid about $96.00US for it in the ships store. Wore that watch for what seemed like forever. Slammed a few hatches on it, banged it against bombs and missiles, soaked it in San Miguel beer

while in the Philippines, splattered it with redlead while redoing magazine decks, it had a few scratches on the crystal and then finally, the self winding mechanism gave out

. Took it to the jewelers to have it repaired and he informed me that I would be better off buying a new one. Well not to long ago, I happened to be in the Asheville, N.C. Mall and saw one just like it in a jewelry store. I was flabergasted! They wanted $360.00 for that watch! I laughed all the way out of the store.

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:01 pm

Most of my life, I haven't felt the need for a wristwatch, mainly because I HATE having something on my wrist. I did wear one in the Army where I simply had to have one, but I was VERY hard on watches. I ended up regularly wearing the ones that you could buy at Walmart, hanging from a peg for $5, since I figured a watch wasn't good for more than a couple of months anyway....I'd either smash it somehow, or get the watchband caught on something playing Army out in the brush and rip it off and lose it. I went through a lot of watches in the relatively few years I did that.

Nowadays, I use my Treo (cell phone/Palm Pilot) for a watch! Works well except the time that I pulled it out, dropped it on a subway platform, and shattered the LCD....Fortunately I could get a refurbished Treo for $58 from sprint.

Carl_Constantine · Post by **Carl_Constantine** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:22 am

Ken Ramos wrote:..and Carl said:
I feel left out. All I have is a digital watch, nothing as nice as any of these.

Awe come on Carl, lets see the watch Hey as long as it tells time it qualifies.

Ok, here it is:

It is slightly out of focus but this is handheld so it was hard to get. You don't see the seconds changing as this should was 1/3s :-)

dave_putty · Post by **dave_putty** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:09 pm

Here's my baby Its aprox 10 years old...never take it off and it never misses a single beat

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:24 pm

Dave_putty replied:

Here's my baby Its aprox 10 years old...never take it off and it never misses a single beat

Okay gang, now we know where the money is at!

Thats a nice watch Dave, kind of reminds me of my old Seiko.

By the way Carl, ain't nuth'n wrong with that watch, I used to have one similar to it. Never had to change the battery in it and it ran swell for better than six years. Don't know what ever happened to it, I bought a new one just for a change of scenery on my wrist though.

dave_putty · Post by **dave_putty** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:43 pm

Hee hee thanks Ken...I'm showing my age here but I have had some nice Seiko and Citizen watches in the past that have been excellent time keepers but didn’t stand up to the punishing life of a soldier. This watch was so expensive I dare not bash it LOL

puzzledpaul · Post by **puzzledpaul** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:14 pm

svm/ picked up the HRT tabs by mistake one day/svm off

Time for a really rugged timepiece I thought - white part of face just under 9mm across minor axis

svm: squeaky voice mode

pp

(happened to notice it on elder daughters wrist and hadn't seen it before - looked somewhat different from even std 'girlie' watches imo)